What does the partnership aim to do?

Our vision is to reveal and protect the hidden heritage of the Westmorland Dales, enabling more people to connect with, enjoy and benefit from this inspirational landscape.

Our scheme will reveal the hidden heritage of the Westmorland Dales; a remote and beautiful limestone landscape, historically much travelled, but rarely explored. We will unlock and reveal the rich heritage of the area, encouraging people to linger and connect with this inspirational landscape.

We will ensure that the exceptional natural and cultural heritage of the area is recorded, interpreted, conserved and managed appropriately, providing an essential foundation for the “new” National Park.

We will bring together communities, farmers and businesses, facilitating a holistic approach to land management and a stronger socio-economic base benefitting the future care and conservation of the area. We will share the distinctiveness of this special place with visitors, ensuring that our legacy is a place where people linger, learn and return.

The legacy of the scheme will be maintaining this unique landscape, its quiet and unspoilt nature. It will provide skills and training for the local community so they can help bring their heritage into better condition. It will provide resources and encourage tourism businesses to make the most of their unique ‘sense of place’. Working through partnership this scheme will provide the building block for the next stage of the future of the area – as it is revealed through National Park status.

Our scheme has four overarching objectives which build upon our vision:

Latest

We have concerns about the limited extent to which the impact of the proposals on the landscape has been assessed and significant concerns about the process that has been used to promote and develop the Masterplan document.

In a world of fast pace and change and more external pressures than ever before, it is easy to forget that landscape is all around us and supports us. This is why we created our Why Landscape Matters campaign. We are asking people to join with us and remember why our landscapes matter to us, celebrate and enjoy them, and support our work to keep them special.